Untitled – Etel Adnan, 2014, oil on canvas, 35 x 27 cm. One image is always more than one image — Gerald Murnane Things don’t connect, they correspond — Jack Spicer PART THREE And then came the arrests. Came the tear gas, the percussion grenades, the pepper spray, the wooden bullets, the LRAD declaration of […]

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/other-places-we-learned-religion.mp3 To listen to Afton read her work as below, click on the play button in the black bar above. To see a pdf preserving the horizontal layout and original lineation of the work, please click HERE. OTHER PLACES WE LEARNED RELIGION The color blue LinkedIn suggests that Criminal Cousin One is a kitchen designer, […]

Mopes: A Book of Poems in Three Acts by Kenneth Reveiz Straddling the wreckage of late capitalist America, the poems in Kenneth Reveiz’s MOPES arc urgently toward utopia—or at least they do their best. The intimate eros of liberated queerness is interrupted, undermined by a flood of dystopian American violence. The choice to fight for love and […]

Fence Issue #40 Winter 2023    Poetry.  Fiction.  Translation.   &.  Other.     Super-contemporary literary incitements since 1998.   Shipping Mid-March 2023 To Libraries, stores, Subscribers, and Members   ◊  ◊  ◊  F E A T U R I N G  ◊  ◊  ◊   ♦ An Editor’s Note from Issue 40-41 Visiting Editor Edgar Garcia. […]

The 2023 Rae Armantrout Fence t-shirt, designed by Fence intern Cath Cai, features an excerpt from Armantrout’s poem “Falling (1)” as printed in the first issue of Fence in 1998. Receive yours with a $20 donation or higher. This link will take you to PayPal, where if you click “+Add special instructions to the seller,” […]